From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: library/package filename prefixes Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 23:39:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="104677"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 03 05:40:53 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5Ur-000RA2-SG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 05:40:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55792 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5Uq-0001la-RF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:40:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35964) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5Tf-0006t5-AD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:39:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44593) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5Te-0008St-QO; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:39:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5TY-0000qc-4O; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:39:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Drew Adams on Fri, 1 May 2020 14:07:14 -0700 (PDT)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248616 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I think the "Emacs Lisp Coding Conventions" node > of the Elisp manual should be amended to say that > a library/package prefix should be at least 2 > chars followed by a hyphen (`-'). And even add > that 3 or more is preferable. I agree. Indeed, why not make 3 the minimum for users? Are there any libraries in Emacs or GNU ELPA which currently use a 2-letter prefix? We could ask people to use at least 4 letters for prefixes invented after today. We could make special exceptions on rare occasions. > "Too clever by half" is an expression that comes > to mind. Cute, but not great for playing in the > communal sandbox. Well put! -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)